UNUSUALLY, as many as four of the top 10 flat horses in Europe on my figures are six-year-olds, an age at which the cream of the crop has usually been moved onto pastures new.

Century Dream is no Battaash (127), Enable (124), Dream Of Dreams or Stradivarius (both 123), but he struck another blow for the class of 2014 by winning last week’s sole Group 2, the Ladbrokes Celebration Mile at Goodwood, in fine style and now figures on 118 and in joint-26th place.